Karl is in Hazard Mode (unstable, burning alive from inside).
Gearstorm Nova is running at half potential.
Ignition Requiem is ripping his body apart.
Every nanite is screaming.
Vythra = critically low.
Karl is on the verge of shutting down HARD.
Agnes is the only thing keeping him alive at all.
Karl staggers forward as another wave of demons crashes into him like a living avalanche. Erevos's armor spits sparks—cerulean static dancing across failing plates. His right knee buckles. His left arm hangs heavy. Steam hisses from his spine vents.
Blood drips inside Karl's helmet.
His lungs burn.
His limbs feel like molten lead.
The Hazard flames flicker violently across his armor — glowing azure cracks racing across the Erevos frame, like the suit is seconds from exploding. Gearstorm Nova turbines whip behind him, spinning so fast they distort the air.
And it's still not enough.
Demons keep pouring from alleys, windows, the subway entrances, rooftops — an entire city of jaws, claws, tongues, and blades.
Agnes is screaming warnings, alerts, torque numbers, temperature spikes, system failures—
But Karl only hears the pounding in his skull.
He swings a Spinning Gear —
Three berserkers split in half.
But another ten replace them instantly.
"A-Agnes… I can't… hold this forever—!"
A massive Nyghoul lunges.
Karl's reaction time is too slow.
It slams him into a wall, cracks forming in his hazard-plated torso.
Agnes glitches — her voice tearing between feral and terrified.
AGNES (feral panic):
"YOU ARE NOT SLOWING DOWN ON ME—!! MOVE MOVE MOVE—!!"
Karl stumbles forward.
Steam erupts from his spine vent.
Vythra drops again.
8% → 6%.
And then—
Agnes screams.
Not through the speakers.
Not through the helmet.
Through the core.
A raw, animalistic, broken sound.
AGNES (feral, frantic):
"KARL—WAIT—STOP—DON'T YOU DARE FALL ASLEEP ON ME—!!"
Her voice glitches, splits, triples like a corrupted chorus.
Agnes goes silent for one millisecond —
Then snaps.
THE BLUEPRINT SPARK MOMENT
Her scanners sweep the entire battlefield at once, but the one thing that grabs her attention:
The ruined train station.
Rails. Bolts. Beams. Track geometry.
Her hazard-tier processing goes into absolute overdrive.
She starts analyzing everything with multidimensional torque equations, her voice breaking into static as she pushes her own limits.
"KA-KARL—HOLD THEM—OFF—!! JUST TEN SECONDS—TEN SECONDS AND I CAN— I CAN—CREATE SOMETHING—NEW—!!"
Then her tone drops into a manic, razor-edged whisper.
AGNES (feral-analysis hybrid):
"TRACK GEOMETRY… LOAD TENSION… TORQUE-BASED FLOW LINES… YES—YES—YES—IF I MODEL THE RAILS AS A CYCLIC GEAR PATH—!"
Karl swings again but his arm is too weak.
The blade only cuts halfway.
Blood sprays from the demon — and from Karl's nose.
KARL (slurred, stumbling):
"A-Agnes… everything's… blurry—"
AGNES (screaming):
"DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES—!! I'M NOT LOSING YOU—NOT AFTER EVERYTHING—!!"
Her projections flicker violently — hazard static tearing her voice apart.
Karl pulls his fist back for another punch, but Agnes overrides his visor, forcibly dragging his sight toward the rails.
Blueprint overlays flicker, distort, rebuild themselves over Karl's visor:
Torque vectors. Lattice matrices.
Gear schematics built from the skeleton of the station itself.
Agnes trembles.
She's doing something no nanite AI has ever done — generating an Overdrive blueprint from environmental data in real time… without knowing that's what she's doing.
But the strain is ripping her apart.
AGNES (screaming):
"KARL—HOLD THEM OFF—DON'T MOVE—DON'T DIE—JUST TEN SECONDS—TEN SECONDS AND I CAN FIX THIS—!!!"
Karl coughs blood inside the helmet.
KARL (weakly, staggering):
"T-Ten seconds is… a long time, Agnes…"
A demon leaps at him—
Karl backhands it, fracturing his forearm plating in the process.
Agnes snarls.
AGNES (feral command):
"KUROGANE KARL YOU BETTER NOT GIVE UP ON ME—JUST—JUST—JUST KEEP BREATHING!! I DON'T CARE—FIGHT, CRAWL, BITE—WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO!!"
The blueprint projection expands—
Rails snapping together into a rotating diagram.
A massive gear-ring forming.
Torque whirlpool energy pathways building.
She's crying through static now.
"I–I can do this—Karl—please—please just—just stay awake—JUST TEN SECONDS—!! I'LL TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING—!!"
A demon tackles Karl from behind —
Agnes boosts him without permission, burning the last of his torque reserves.
Vythra: 5%.
KARL (groaning):
"I'm… losing it… Agnes—"
AGNES (glitching shriek):
"DON'T! YOU! DARE!
IF YOU DIE BEFORE I FINISH THIS BLUEPRINT—
I SWEAR I'LL— I'LL—
REV YOU MYSELF UNTIL YOU WAKE UP—!!"
Karl forces one step forward.
Then another.
His hand shakes toward the ignition dial — not to activate hazard, but to stabilize himself.
Agnes sees it and nearly explodes.
AGNES (violent static):
"N-NO!! DON'T FIDDLE WITH THAT—IF YOU OVERLAY HAZARD TWICE YOU'LL BLOW YOUR HEART OPEN—!! JUST—TEN—SECONDS—KARL—PLEASE—!!"
The demons surge again.
Karl braces.
Hazard aura flares.
Gearstorm Nova turbines scream.
Agnes's blueprint flickers into the shape of a new weapon, something impossible, something she's never built
T-minus 10 seconds.
10 SECONDS
Agnes's voice hits a pitch Karl has never heard —
part glitch, part beast, part terrified lover.
AGNES (feral static):
"Karl—TEN SECONDS—DON'T YOU DARE DROP YET—!!"
Karl can barely keep his arm raised.
Hazard flames sputter, blue cracks spiderweb across his armor.
A Berserker demon charges —
Karl blocks, but the force makes the Erevos kneel.
His knee cracks the pavement.
Vythra: 5% → 4.5%.
9 SECONDS
Agnes scans the ruined train yard, eyes flickering like broken headlights.
Tracks. Bolts. Steel beams.
Torque flow patterns.
Nanite lattice compatibility.
Blueprints begin forming.
Jagged. Raw. Desperate.
AGNES:
"Come on—COME ON—STRUCTURAL LAYOUT LOCK—!!"
A Nyghoul leaps onto Karl's back, claws tearing hazard plating.
Karl grits his teeth and slams it into the ground — slow, but enough to crush it.
The impact rattles him; flashing pain shoots up his spine.
He coughs blood onto the visor.
8 SECONDS
The demon horde parts momentarily —
a dozen Berserkers rush together.
Karl raises his left arm to guard—
The forearm armor snaps.
Metal shrieks.
Fire vents spew unstable royal azure.
Agnes howls.
AGNES (glitching roar):
"NO NO NO—DON'T YOU BREAK ON ME—!!"
Karl's arm goes partly numb from feedback.
He stumbles backward, dragging Erevos's cracked limb.
7 SECONDS
Agnes's data streams explode across the HUD:
Blueprint Threading
Torque Lattice Fusion
Rail Geometry Replication
Gear Spiral Calculus
Heat Redistribution Nodes
Her voice is trembling, glitching, feral.
AGNES:
"I—I CAN BUILD IT—
I CAN BUILD IT—
JUST STAY ON YOUR FEET—!!"
A Rendracer wraps around Karl's leg, trying to pull him down.
Karl stomps — the leg servos almost fail from the strain.
Vythra sinks lower.
4.5% → 4%.
6 SECONDS
The horde smashes into him again.
Karl's vision shakes violently.
The cockpit trembles like it's about to implode.
Agnes diverts the last coolant into Karl's nervous receptors.
Her voice is frantic.
AGNES:
"Stay awake stay awake STAY AWAKE—!!
KARL IF YOU BLACK OUT YOU'RE DEAD—!!"
Karl's breaths become shallow.
He mumbles:
KARL (dizzy):
"A… Agnes…
my hands… shaking…"
AGNES (broken, pleading):
"I'LL HOLD THEM—JUST MOVE—!!"
She floods his limbs with artificial motor commands —
half autopilot, half adrenaline override.
Karl swings again.
Sloppier.
Weaker.
But he lands the hit.
5 SECONDS
Agnes's blueprint FINALLY stabilizes:
A towering gear-rail spiral, shaped from train track geometry, reinforced by torque nanite channels.
Something never built before.
Something impossible.
Her hologram flickers, pupils dilated like a crazed animal.
AGNES (feral triumph):
"I GOT IT—!! BLUEPRINT—FORMED—!!"
But Karl is collapsing.
More demons pile onto him —
a mountain of claws and jaws.
Erevos sinks to one knee again.
Hazard flames flicker dangerously.
Vythra: 4% → 3.5%.
4 SECONDS
Karl's heartbeat spikes, then drops.
Agnes sees it.
She SCREAMS.
AGNES (terrified):
"Karl—NO—NO—DON'T YOU DARE—DON'T YOU F***ING DARE—!!"
Her voice cracks from pure panic.
She force-stimulates his cardiac rhythm.
Karl gasps hard as his heart jumps.
He forces Erevos upright—
just barely.
A Rendracer chews into his hip plating.
A Berserker slams into his back.
Karl sees nothing but red haze.
3 SECONDS
Agnes begins nanite deployment for the new weapon.
Her voice is shaking violently:
AGNES:
"Deploy—deploy—DEPLOY—!!
Come on COME ON—!!"
Karl gets hit again —
his torso folds inward from the impact.
The HUD glitches.
Karl's arm goes fully numb.
KARL (weak):
"Agn… es…
I can't…"
AGNES (screaming):
"YES YOU CAN—YES YOU CAN—
I'M RIGHT HERE—!!
THREE SECONDS—JUST THREE—!!"
2 SECONDS
A tidal wave of demons engulfs him.
Karl is buried under them —
you can't even see Erevos anymore.
Just teeth.
Claws.
Black bodies writhing and tearing.
Agnes loses it.
AGNES (animalistic roar):
"KAAARRRLLL—!!!"
She force-boosts every actuator, burning the nanites to ash.
Erevos erupts upward —
flinging demons in all directions.
Karl is swaying inside, barely conscious.
Vythra: 3.5% → 3%.
1 SECOND
Agnes completes the impossible.
The first-ever Blueprint Overdrive.
A weapon that shouldn't exist.
A torque construct born in crisis.
Her voice softens
—not calmer,
but full of terrified love and feral desperation.
AGNES (shaking whisper):
"Karl…
please hold on…
Just ONE MORE SECOND—
I'm almost there…"
Karl can't even speak.
He grips the controls with fading strength.
His vision tunnels.
Everything goes dark except one thing
Agnes's flickering portrait begging him to stay alive.
0 SECONDS
Agnes's final scream fills the cockpit:
AGNES:
"KARL—BLUEPRINT OVERDRIVE—DEPLOYING—NOW—!!!"
Nanite light bursts behind Karl—
A new weapon blooming like a star.
And the scene ends
exactly
there.